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Does exactly what it says on the tin, a big, brash zombie comedy that kept me entertained for the duration. A labourer clearing out a site to build some luxury flats stumbles upon a sealed tomb, thinking he might find valuables inside he calls to one of his mates and they breakdown the door only to discover a mass of dead bodies but suddenly they are attacked by a skeletal zombie and before long the whole of the East end of London is overrun by the undead. Or film follows two groups of survivors, a gang of inept bank robbers lead by wide boy brothers Terry (Rasmus Hardiker) and Andy (Harry Treadaway), who are battling their way across the city…

This was far better than it had any right to be. With its terrible but entirely appropriate title, Cockneys vs Zombies is a film that revels in its knowing silliness. Co-written by James Moran (responsible for another solid British horror-comedy, Severance), this demonstrates that there is still some (undead) life in the rundown zombie sub-genre. It does nothing groundbreaking - the humour is simple and cheap, the walking dead action is bloody and enjoyable but hardly innovative and the characters are about as complex as the ‘says what it does on the tin’ title. However, whilst it wins no awards for originality or invention it makes up for in spirit.

I always hated the sound of this one because as I've said a million times, I hate cockneys. Sorry, zombies! I mean zombies.

But it's actually far more enjoyable and entertaining than I would ever have expected. It's way more fun in its final third when it becomes OAPs vs Zombies, and the other segments around the old people's home are the other best bits in the film.

In fact, it's quite damning towards Harry Treadaway and Rasmus Hardiker in the leads that the ageing likes of Richard Briers, Honor Blackman, Dudley Sutton ("....and Christopher Lee!") and Alan Ford show far more life than their young counterparts do. Fortunately, lively displays from…

Somehow enjoyed this far better the second time around. It is a blast to watch with friends. Sure it doesn't add anything to the pantheon of zombie films but there's an abundance of funny jokes and blood splattered violence to satiate your hunger for a good bit of zom-com fun.

Y'know when you get up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet and putting the light on in the bathroom is like a nuclear bomb has just gone off? Cockneys vs Zombies has that same soft focus haze for reasons that I'll never know.

I could watch an uzi-wielding Richard Briers until the cows come home to roost but I have a general distaste for films with gimmicks such as this.

Not usually a film I'd watch but nonetheless it was interesting to see - after Shaun of the Dead's incredible success and the boom in genre/low budget cinema usually staring Danny Dyer, a Cockney zombie film isn't necessarily that strange a concept. Having the undead against the elderly, as can be attested to in the one very funny joke of imagining a lumbering undead chase a man who uses a frame to escape them by an inch, is also surprisingly rewarding.

There's also the sense of London pride on display, all rah-rah triumph in which, even if the young leads are thieves attempting a bank robbery, its all for a good…